Synonyms for salt

Noun

1. salt, compound, chemical compound

usage: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

2. salt, table salt, common salt, flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning

usage: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT, diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations

usage: negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

4. salt, saltiness, salinity, taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception

usage: the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

Verb

1. salt, season, flavor, flavour

usage: add salt to

2. salt, sprinkle, splash, splosh

usage: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

3. salt, spice, spice up

usage: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"

4. salt, preserve, keep

usage: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

Adjective

1. salt (vs. fresh), brackish, briny, saliferous, saline, salty, saltish, tasteful

usage: containing or filled with salt; "salt water"

2. salt, sharp (vs. dull)

usage: of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"

3. salty, salt, tasteful (vs. tasteless)

usage: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water